As concience hym kennede  til heO.4.46: GOC2 alone have he in place of þei. He is not the form of the plural normally used by the O-scribe, and the context suggests the singular may have been intended. come to þe kyng

O.4.163: YOC2H alone lack an introductory conjunction or pronoun; most B manuscripts have And.Leten mekenesse a mayster  & Mede a mansedO.4.163: The scribe wrote in the right margin the gloss cursid for mansed. schrewe

O.4.164KD.4.161

Loue lete of hir liȝt  & lewte ȝit lasse

O.4.165KD.4.162

And seyde it so hye  þat al þe halle it herde

O.4.166KD.4.163

Who-so wilneþ hir to wijf  for welþe of hir goodis

O.4.167KD.4.164

But he be knowen for a cokwold  cutte of my nose

O.4.168KD.4.165

¶ Mede mornede þoo  & made heuy chere

O.4.169KD.4.166

For þe moost comune of þat court  callede hir an hore

O.4.170KD.4.167

Ac a sisour & a sumpnour  sueden hir faste

O.4.171KD.4.168

And a schirreues clerk  beschrewede al þe route

O.4.172KD.4.169

For ofte haue I quod he  holpen ȝow at þe barre

O.4.173KD.4.170

And ȝit ȝyueO.4.173: O alone has the form ȝyue; most B manuscripts have yeue. ȝe me neuere  þe worþe of a rische

O.4.174KD.4.171

Þe kyng callede concience  & afterward resoun

O.4.175KD.4.172

And recordede þat Resoun  hadde riȝtfullich schewed

O.4.176KD.4.173

And modilich vp-on Mede  wiþ myȝt þe kyng lokede

O.4.177KD.4.174

And gan waxe wroþ wiþ lawe  for Mede almost hadde schent it

O.4.178KD.4.175

And seyde . þoruȝ ȝoure lawe as I leue  I lese many chetis

O.4.179KD.4.176

Mede ouer-maystrieþ lawe  & myche truþe letteþ

O.4.180KD.4.177

Ac Resoun schal reckene wiþ ȝow  if I regne any whyle

O.4.181KD.4.178

And deme ȝow on abi þisO.4.181: A solidus/punctus above on a and above the marginal addition indicate that it is intended as a substitution. The uncorrected reading is shared by C2 alone. day  as ȝe han deserued

O.4.182KD.4.179

Mede schal not meynprise ȝow  bi þe marie of heuene

O.4.183KD.4.180

I wole haue lewte in lawe  & lete be ȝoure Ianglyng

O.4.184KD.4.181

And as moostO.4.184: OC2 alone lack the subject of this clause; all other beta witnesses have folk. witnessen wel  wrong schal be demed